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The Greater Vancouver Real Estate Board Needs a Web 2.0 Advisor

Vancouver Condo Real Estate Video Blog #254 - February 26, 2009

The Greater Vancouver Real Estate Board Needs a Web 2.0 Advisor

Ian Watt video blogs about the Greater Vancouver Real Estate Board needs an independent Web 2.0 advisor to educate the board on the longterm effects of social media and real estate. If you want to voice your opinion or if you don't care for Ian's comments please email your feedback to ianwatt@ianwatt.ca and visit http://www.ianwatt.ca/RealEstateVideos for all the Ian Watt Real Estate Video Blogs.

Ian Watt: Hi good afternoon! It’s Ian
Watt in Downtown Vancouver. Last week I've done a video blog regarding
how the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver. Doesn't really
understand Web 2.0 and how it applies to our real estate business. Now
in regards, for example twitter on twitter we have a hundred and forty
characters to say anything. What were doing, where we are, here's a
link to my website and here's my new listing. In a hundred and forty
characters I cannot put I worked for Sutton West Coast or Re/Max or
Century 21 and still put my message out there. It's impossible and I
have it on my website and I think that's a great thing because our
website is our main page, it's our ID, it's like a driver's license or
a credit card that's how we proved who we are. And the thing is if you
want me to start disclosing on every single social media tool that we
have that I'm at Sutton Group West Coast Realty. There is no way that
it's gonna work and furthermore if we have on or videos that ianwatt.ca
video. If I put my brokerage on my website on my real estate page. That
is fantastic! However, if I put it on the video and the video is out
there and next year I'd change to Re/Max, year after that I change to
Century 21. Those videos are out there forever and they just gonna
cause more confusion for everybody who this little law is going to
protect. I think what people should do is hire, the Real Estate Board
that is should hire independent web 2.0 consultant they should get on
that and stop making the rules themselves because they don't have an
idea how it's going to work and how it's gonna affect people for the
long term. I had so many people email me reply after sending that video
out there. So I'm not the only one who thinks this way. I think the
Greater Vancouver Real Estate Board should look into it in an
independent manner and then update their protocol for that. My name is
Ian Watt. you can always email me at ianwatt@ianwatt.ca. Thank you very much and have a great day!